Beetle Bailey should retire

[Smasher_Sloan]

This was today's strip.

This is funny? I can't believe cash-strapped papers pay for crap like this.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Hey, it could have been Nancy. Count your blessings.

 

[doctorx]

I was responsible for dumping Snuffy Smith when I was an editor.

 

[Bubbler]

It's stupid as hell. And because of that, it's (unintentionally) funny.

It's the same reason Nancy was/is an absolute riot.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Give the guy a break. He's been in the Army since 1950 and he's still a private. Being funny is the least of his worries.

 

[dooley_womack1]

It's stupid as hell. And because of that, it's (unintentionally) funny.

It's the same reason Nancy was/is an absolute riot.

Sluggo probably goes to Japan twice a year as a schoolgirl fetish sex tourist.

 

[Batman]

Give the guy a break. He's been in the Army since 1950 and he's still a private. Being funny is the least of his worries.

He does get to bang Miss Buxley on occasion, though. That's gotta count for something.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Every Penthouse Forum or similar story I read that was set in the military, I always pictured Beetle Bailey in the lead role for some reason.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Give the guy a break. He's been in the Army since 1950 and he's still a private. Being funny is the least of his worries.

He does get to bang Miss Buxley on occasion, though. That's gotta count for something.

Nah, that action is only for Gen. Halftrack.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Are you saying this because Beetle Bailey debuted 63 years ago tomorrow and his creator turns 90 today?

 

[doctorx]

Give the guy a break. He's been in the Army since 1950 and he's still a private. Being funny is the least of his worries.

There was a career Pfc. in the town in which I grew up. Served 20 years, I think.

 

[champ_kind]

no matter how bad it gets, it's still better than family circus

 

[Double J]

Give the guy a break. He's been in the Army since 1950 and he's still a private. Being funny is the least of his worries.

He does get to bang Miss Buxley on occasion, though. That's gotta count for something.

Nah, that action is only for Gen. Halftrack.

Remember when Halftrack had to take sensitivity training because of his ogling of Miss Buxley?

If the strip were ever funny, it ended forever when that happened.

 

[Batman]

Give the guy a break. He's been in the Army since 1950 and he's still a private. Being funny is the least of his worries.

He does get to bang Miss Buxley on occasion, though. That's gotta count for something.

Nah, that action is only for Gen. Halftrack.

Beetle and Buxley are always out on romantic picnics and whatnot, and she's frequently hanging on his arm. She's also out with Killer a lot, so she might be blowing half the base, but Beetle is at least getting his share.
Why do you think he's always so tired? Buxley is a nympho who keeps him up all night.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

This was today's strip.

This is funny? I can't believe cash-strapped papers pay for crap like this.

Still better than Family Circus.

 

[dooley_womack1]

But not as funny as The Other Family

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

no matter how bad it gets, it's still better than family circus

Family Circus at least serves a purpose with the sugary cuteness that grandmas like to stick to their refrigerator doors with magnets that look like fruit.

Beetle has absolutely no purpose. It's the Ed Randall of comics.

 

[Beef03]

There are so few comics that I find even borderline humourous anymore. Its to the point where I often don't even read the funny pages, but the odd time I go through our one page in the paper, it's rare when it elicits even a small chuckle. The best that we run, sadly, is Dilbert. But that's it as far as coming close to consistently getting me to laugh. The one strip I do like, but we don't run, is Get Fuzzy. Makes me really miss the days of The Far Side.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

We still have comics? I haven't looked since the last day of Calvin and Hobbes.

 

[KJIM]

I do not comprehend how Garfield is still in print.